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Pegasus. KXL.

Seemingly innocuous monikers for structures guaranteed to create havoc. Pipelines that carry toxic tar sands bitumen diluted with carcinogenic, polynuclear, aromatic hydrocarbons are proven community and individual health disrupters. Southeast of Livingston, Texas, two of these pipelines cross paths. One has already disrupted the community of Mayflower, Arkansas, "upstream" of this juncture. The latter promises even greater calamity since it will carry much greater volume of the toxic crude at much greater pressures than the former.

The Autonomous Light Brigade risked cottonmouth water moccasins and monster mosquito swarms to set up the display shown. Not only does this intersection of pipelines exist, but so, too, do their promises of harm.